The CAIC is a member of the Canadian Cardiology Society. Our members are cardiologists who specialize in hemodynamic interventions. The creation of the CAIC grew out of the realization by interventionist members of the CCS of the need for an organization which would provide services to and advance the discipline, development and implementation of interventional cardiology.

These are particularly exciting times for interventional cardiologists, since technological advances are leading to more and more patients receiving percutanous coronary intervention for Acute Coronary Syndromes and ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). At the same time, we face many challenges in the practice of our sub-specialty, as social and fiscal issues are raising questions which require urgent attention and discussion, at our level as well as at the level of social policy makers, other healthcare communities and, of course, at the patient level.

The CAIC includes a growing number of physicians who are involved in adult and pediatric/congenital interventional cardiology. The affairs of CAIC are overseen by an Executive Committee and by several operations committees which are responsible for establishing standards and guidelines for cardiac catheterization and angiography, on-line, and conventional training.